Most Amazing Extinct Animals
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The Great Auk was the only species in the genus Pinguinus, flightless giant auks from the Atlantic, to survive until recent times, but is extinct today. It was also known as garefowl, or penguin. 

大海雀（自1844年灭绝）。大海雀是海雀类中唯一不飞的物种，体型巨大。来自大西洋，幸存直至当代，很不幸，如今已不见大海雀身影。它同时被称为大海燕或是企鹅。

Quagga: (extinct since 1883)

The Quagga, One of Africa's most famous extinct animals, It was distinguished from other zebras by having the usual vivid marks on the front part of the body only. 

  

马与斑马的南非亲戚—斑驴（马属的另一种动物），前半身有着斑马一样的条纹；后半身则像马，没有斑纹。这种动物已在100多年前灭绝。

Thylacine: the Tasmanian Tiger (extinct since 1936)

The Thylacine was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times. Native to Australia and New Guinea,  It is commonly known as the Tasmanian Tiger (due to its striped back), and also known as the Tasmanian Wolf, 

 

塔斯马尼亚虎，又叫袋狼,其实塔斯马尼亚虎并不能完全称为“虎”，它长着类似狼的脑袋和像狗的身子，是现代最大的食肉有袋动物，它背部长着像老虎一样的黑色条纹，还有能张开很大的利爪。在四足肉食动物中，塔斯马尼亚虎的嘴巴可以张开180度，这样，撕咬的范围就更大

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Aurochs:  (extinct since 1627) 

One of Europe's most famous extinct animals, the aurochs were a very large type of cattle. Aurochs evolved in India some two million years ago, migrated into the Middle East and further into Asia, and reached Europe about 250,000 years ago. 


原牛曾遍布欧亚大陆,但由于人类捕杀,破坏环境等因素,仅在欧洲中部有分布。原牛体态魁梧,体长280～300厘米，尾长130～140厘米，肩高1.8 m，体重800～1000千克,双角尖耸,原牛略小于象,色彩独特,体型巨大,速度超群,无论面对人兽,它们都不示弱,无法被驯化,就是幼牛也很难驯服。

 
Tyrannosaurus Rex was one of the largest land carnivores of all time, measuring up to 43.3 feet long, and 16.6 ft tall, with an estimated mass that goes up to 7 tons.
暴龙,又名霸王龙，是一种大型的肉食性恐龙，身长约13公尺，体重约7公吨，生存于白垩纪末期的马斯垂克阶最后300万年，距今约6850万年到6550万年，是白垩纪-第三纪灭绝事件前最后的恐龙种群之一。化石分布于北美洲的美国与加拿大西部，分布范围较其它暴龙科更广。
The Dodo was a flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius. Related to pigeons and doves, it stood about a meter tall (three feet), lived on fruit and nested on the ground. The dodo has been extinct since the mid-to-late 17th century.

嘟嘟鸟，又称毛里求斯渡渡鸟、愚鸠、孤鸽，是仅产于印度洋毛里求斯岛上一种不会飞的鸟，居住在毛里求斯岛。它站着有三英尺高（1米），以水果为食，生活在陆地。渡渡鸟自17世纪中后期就已经灭绝了，这种鸟在被人类发现后仅仅200年的时间里，便由于人类的捕杀和活动的影响彻底绝灭，堪称是除恐龙之外最著名的已灭绝动物之一。

 
The Caspian tiger or Persian tiger was the westernmost subspecies of tiger, found in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Caucasus,Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan until it apparently became extinct in the 1970s. Of all the tigers known to the world, the Caspian tiger was the third largest. 

里海虎（1970年灭绝）。世界第三大虎，又称为波斯虎，是虎类最西部的亚种。里海虎脸颊周围长满了短毛，雄性里海虎身型巨大，体重大约为169公斤-240公斤。雌性不如雄性大，体重也只有85公斤-135公斤。现在仍然存在目击过里海虎的说辞

 

The Cave Lion, also known as the European or Eurasian cave lion, This subspecies was one of the largest lions. Therefore this cat may have been around 5-10% bigger than modern lions. It apparently went extinct about 10,000 years ago, during the Würm glaciation, though there are some indications it may have existed as recently as 2,000 years ago, in the Balkans. 

 

穴狮，同样被人称为欧洲穴狮或是亚欧穴狮。穴狮是狮子类中已灭绝的亚种。这个亚种是狮子类中最大的一类。。因此，这种猫科动物大约比现代狮大5%—10%。在武木冰期即大概在10000年前濒临灭绝。不过一些迹象表明，直至2000年前，这个物种还存在于巴尔干半岛。

 

The Irish Elk or Giant Deer, was the largest deer that ever lived. The latest known remains of the species have been carbon dated to about 5,700 BC, or about 7,700 years ago. The Giant Deer is famous for its formidable size (about 2.1 meters tall at the shoulders), and in particular for having the largest antlers of any known cervid (a maximum of 3.65 meters/12 feet from tip to tip and weighing up to 90 pounds). 

爱尔兰大鹿（大约是7700年前灭绝）。又称为巨鹿，是曾经生活在地球上的最大的鹿。现已灭绝它们生活在亚欧大陆—从爱尔兰到贝加尔湖，可以追溯到公元前5700年。巨鹿肩高约2.1米，鹿角是鹿科类动物中最大的，重量可达90磅。

Steller's Sea Cow: (extinct since 1768)
 

Formerly found near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea, it was discovered in in 1741 by the naturalist Georg Steller, who was traveling with the explorer Vitus Bering. The sea cow grew up to 7.9 meters (25.9 ft) long and weighed up to three tons, much larger than the manatee or dugong. 

 

大海牛（又名巨儒艮或斯特拉海牛，是已灭绝的巨大哺乳类动物。大海牛于1741年在白令海峡发现，发现者为博物学者乔治·斯特拉，当时他正与探险家维他斯·白令一同旅行，而他也是已知唯一看过大海牛活体的生物学家。大海牛身长约7.9米，体重4,500至5,900公斤，可长到10.7米长。大海牛的前肢粗壮但短钝，呈桨状，尾巴的外型与儒艮相似。